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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

For my Kids

Not sure if I mentioned it before, but Nathan and Ella are sooo into looking at my old scrapbooks. Well, I should call them their old scrapbooks. They love the photos and especially enjoy hearing the stories. It makes me realize that I started this hobby to do just that. Record their lives.

Ella still brings up the old house. "I miss my old house." are her exact words. They love it here, but I think we are all missing our routine. Nathan will tell me about how he dreams of the house at night and remembers what we did there. So I decided to make a mini-album to record the stories behind our old house. Every room really does tell a story.

Since the album is a bit bigger than some of the true minis, I decided to have the side by side pages be cohesive. I simply treated them as smaller double page layouts. It came together very quickly because of how complete the Pink Paislee collections are. I loved using the Flip Notes!

It was moving to me to write these stories down. It was as if I relived those beautiful moments again. And now, my kids can as well. We are making new memories and someday I will have a book about our new home. That is how life works. It goes by so quickly and I am afraid that stories will be lost if they don't get written down!

A gift made for my babies. Now if only I can get them to stop fighting over it...LOL!